NMLP P-016350 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · The Viking Press, New York · 1942

First edition, first printing, first issue: copyright page reads 'First published in March 1942' with NO printer's imprint, and on page 112, line 11, the period between the words 'talk' and 'this' is noticeably larger than the other periods in the book

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-016350 for "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016350, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).